SAS/O'NEILL ACTIVITIES WEEK FOR SCHOOLS

SAS/O'NEILL ACTIVITIES WEEK FOR SCHOOLS

Some of the country’s most ‘environmentally switched-on’ primary schoolchildren will be receiving an experience of a lifetime next week during aSurfers Against Sewage (SAS) and O’Neill Marine Environment Activities Weekwhich starts in Falmouth on Monday July 18th.

Based at Falmouth’s National Maritime Museum the activity week will includean environmental boat trip on the regions fastest R.I.B. (through supportingsponsor Orca Seafaris) to learn more about Cornwall’s unique marineenvironment and the creatures it sustains. There will also be a fun artbased workshop where each class will work on creating an ‘environmentallyprotected beach scene’ banner which they can take back to their school atthe end of the day.

The 5 school classes involved in this project have all earnt their placesthrough hard work during the school year. They have designed a range ofprojects that looked to safeguard and protect the marine environment frompollution. The projects were all really creative and included making thoughtprovoking sculptures out of litter they collected from beach cleans; writinginformative school magazines and encouraging families to get involved inrecycling projects and writing raps and songs about the damage being done tothe world’s oceans and performing it to their entire school.

As well as SAS campaigners the children will get to meet some of the UK’stop surfers form the O’Neill team. Top UK surfers Sam Lamiroy, Robyn Daviesand Jake Boex will share their surfing experiences with the childrenthroughout the week, in particular the roles they play in promoting theclean seas message. Having experienced both the good, the bad and thedownright ugly of water quality during surf sessions they can often be someof the first people affected by pollution incidents.

The 5 winning school classes and the days they will be with us in Falmouthare:

Andy Cummins, SAS Campaigner and Event Organiser says: “We’re really lookingforward to spending a week with these environmentally savvy kids, who havealready shown themselves to be passionate campaigners against waterpollution. We hope they’ll both enjoy and learn from the activities day withSAS and O’Neill”.

Robyn Davies, The UK’s top woman surfer says: “When we visited the winningschools to tell them they had won a place on our Environment Activities Weekwe were totally amazed by the enthusiasm, passion and energy the kids hadfor making an environmental difference. I think it’s going to be a veryrewarding week for both myself, the kids and their teachers”.

Photocall’s will be held each day at 9:15am. Please go to the NationalMaritime Museum’s Learning Zone room where SAS will be working from. TheNational Maritime Museum is based at Discovery Quay, Falmouth, Cornwall TR113QY.

The SAS/O’Neill Marine Environment Project fits in with Key Stage 2 of thenational curriculum and was sent to over 1600 primary schools nationwide.You can see an example of the pack here:

O’Neill, the board riding company have sponsored this project with a £10,000donation to SAS. This is not the first time O’Neill have been involved insupporting environmental education as they run a successful schoolseducation project in the US and parts of Europe.

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